Prada is selling a paper clip for $185, and people aren’t taking it well

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Barney's is selling Prada's "paperclip-shaped" money clip, the sterling silver spitting image of something that you probably already have on your desk. (CNN)

Prada is selling a paper clip for $185, and people aren’t taking it well

Barney's is selling Prada's "paperclip-shaped" money clip, the sterling silver spitting image of something that you probably already have on your desk. (CNN)

With a spare $185 laying around and a serious lack of creativity, anyone can waltz into Office Depot and drop some cash on 13,300 paper clips.

For anyone who doesn’t want to saunter into work and make it rain paper clips like the patron saint of office supplies, you can spend that same money on just one.

Prada created a sterling silver “paperclip-shaped” money clip, which Barney’s is selling for $185. At 6.25 centimeters long and 2.25 centimeters wide, Prada’s magnum opus clocks in at just over $13 per square centimeter.

Unsurprisingly, people on Twitter were less than impressed.

“$185 for a paperclip? This thing better be able to hold my life together,” one user tweeted.

If your need to treat yourself is limited by your budget, Barney’s sells two variations for $150.

The Prada paper clip is just the latest addition to a long line of unnecessarily expensive items from elite designers.

A blue tote bag from Balenciaga went on sale earlier this year for $2,145 — over 2,145 times the cost of Ikea’s original 99-cent bag that looked strikingly similar. And in December, Nordstrom sold out of a leather-wrapped rock — literally a rock — priced at $85.

But if you’re still planning to blow your paycheck on the clip, don’t fret: “Prada” is engraved on one side so no one will mistake the $185 investment for its one-cent counterpart.